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title: "'Seem like I hear one un um smellin' roun' de chimbly-cornder des n… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Seem like I hear one un um smellin' roun' de chimbly-cornder des now.' Who acts: you, Tobacco. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 38

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"'Seem like I hear one un um smellin' roun' de chimbly-cornder des now.'

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**Who acts:** you, Tobacco · **What happens:** seem, hear · **To what, where:** one um smellin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Tobacco), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:16:38
# text = "'Seem like I hear one un um smellin' roun' de chimbly-cornder des now.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Seem	seem	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	smellin	smellin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	de	de	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	chimbly	chimbly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	cornder	cornder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | Tobacco | one um smellin |  |  | now | de cornder des | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer smellin=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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